How Not to Count the Poor? A Reply to Reddy and Pogge, Martin Ravallion (April 2008)This commentary on a chapter in a forthcoming book by Sudhir Anand, Paul Segal, and Joseph Stiglitz (eds), Debates on the Measurement of Poverty, Oxford University Press (forthcoming) takes issue with the methods employed by DECRG researchers to measure global poverty. The response by Ravallion, above, addresses these concerns.

In 2006 the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist received the results of an independent evaluation of all research activities carried out by the World Bank, both in its Development Economics Vice-Presidency and in other Bank units, between 1998 and 2005. The evaluation draws on all outputs of research projects as well as World Development Reports, Policy Research Reports and flagship reports. Overall, this represents more than 4,000 journal articles, books and databases.